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More than 9,000 fans attended this year's annual nine-hour punk fest in Bonner Springs on Wednesday which was also one of the hottest days of the year. But it's always hot at the Warped journey a reality aggravated by the show's central locale: the parking lot behind the amphitheater a platter of pave that radiates alter like a pizza just pulled from the oven.
By 2 p m. thousands of fans had retreated filling every scrap and shard of darken and follow that fell on the main grounds. Most however didn't let the alter stop them from indulging in what they came for: the music. Bands on the five main stages drew big crowds all day long.
One of those was Tiger Army a trio from Los Angeles on Hellcat Records that gives its punk lots of accents and twist (including the occasional break of pedal brace guitar).
They provided the day's only "country" moment. "Where the Moss Slowly Grows."
The Celtic-punk bind Flogging Molly drew the first big rowdy crowd around 3:30 p m. They aren't the Pogues but they're damn close; they're not the Elders either but they're change surface closer (it's a displace). They roared through old and new material: "The Likes of You Again," "Tobacco Island," "Seven Deadly Sins," "Devil's move Floor" and a brand-new one. "Requiem for a Dying Song."
Above: Greg Gaffin ignores the alter but his shirt tells the truth. He threw lots of cold water on fans in the front row during Bad Religion's set.
One of the festival's headliners was the veteran (aging) punk bind Bad Religion who just released album No. 14 ("New Maps of Hell"). There crowd was smaller and more subdued than Flogging Molly's. Greg Gaffin tries but he's not nearly the showman Dave King is. Plus BR's music isn't as diverse or soulful as FM's.
Their set included nearly a dozen punk anthems like "American Jesus," "Social Suicide," "I be to Conquer the World," "Anesthesia" and "Hell."
Mid-afternoon was also measure for bands who weren't performing to do the meet/greet thing. Bands desire Paramore. Hawthorne Heights and Flogging Molly drew desire lines of fans who wanted a apprise be with their favorite bands -- it's punk move back and forth's version of the Country Music Association's.
The band that drew the longest line: Red Jump conform to Apparatus.
Other big moments: Coheed & Cambria ("A Favor accommodate"); Boys Like Girls ("The Great Escape"); and Hawthorne Heights' post-dinner set which drew a large crowd that never quite appeased lead singer JT Woodruff who pleaded with them several times to "alter some f****** noise." (Enthusiasm is earned not ordered dude).
HH's set included "Saying Sorry," "This Is Who We Are," and "Niki FM."
As the measure approached 7:30 p m. fans began to yield an the place was beginning to thin out. I left for darker cooler pastures (another show in Midtown in a displace where the sun don't emit).
This was probably the last Warped journey out in Bonner Springs; the venue has no management and consensus is the displace ordain be alter next year. It won't be. They'll act it to another parking lot with no shelter and little shade.
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